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Imperfects (Gli imperfetti)

by Alfredo Annicchiarico

Rome, 1947. Vinzio Ferrari, former Commissioner saved in extremis from suicide and veteran prolonged psychiatric care, lives in the country working on his roses.

In a basement he finds the body of a loan shark, with a note stuck throat describing, in French, the date of 16 March. The man was tortured before he was killed. The same sad end comes to Fernanda, madam of the brothel, and to a prelate who’s an old friend of Ferrari and Lombardi. Who is behind these crimes and what is the motive?

Lombardi feels he cannot do without the insights of Ferrari and despite initial resistance he involves him in the difficult investigation…